While Zepellin's antics were perhaps the best-documented on The Starship, they were only one of the bands who celebrated the Seventies in the flying gin palace.

When the Allman Brothers first stepped aboard, they saw the words "Welcome Allman Brothers" were spelled out along the cocktail bar in cocaine. The decadence didn’t end there: the band’s on-board entourage included an employee whose only job was to open the doors of their limo once they landed.

Elton John didn’t match such dionysian excesses (understandable, as he sometimes flew with his family). But he still made the most of the Starship’s facilities, trying out new tunes on the plane’s electric organ and exploring the fruitier corners of the onboard video library. “I remember showing my parents Deep Throat on the Starship while they were having their lunch,” he recalls.

Despite the excesses on board, the stars still had to deal with airport security. One story goes that Peter Frampton snuck drugs onto the plane by hiding his stash at the bottom of his band’s festering dirty laundry basket, in order to confuse sniffer-dogs. By the time of Frampton’s 1977 tour, the squalor and expense were beginning to outweigh the glamour. He was the last star to use the plane before it was sold off, coming to a miserable end at Luton Airport in 1979. Three years later, the Starship was scrapped for parts.